How HackerEarth co-founder’s 7-month-old coding startup made it to Y Combinator’s Winter Batch ’21
Codingal, a live coding and STEM learning startup from Bengaluru, has been selected for Y Combinator’s Winter Batch ’21, after raising undisclosed funds from the Silicon Valley-based tech accelerator.
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As the Co-founder and CTO of
HackerEarth since 2012, the
IIT Roorkee alumnus built and nurtured a
four million-strong community of developers and programmers from all over the world, and even assisted enterprises with their technical hiring needs.
But 2019 onwards, Vivek was on the lookout for his next big idea that could keep him engaged for 10 to 15 years. The
How edtech startup Camp K12 scaled up from a coding bootcamp to a live learning platform
Edtech startup Camp K12 began as a coding bootcamp in 2010. But its growth in the last 12 months since it launched live online classes is worth noting.
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Anshul Bhagi started coding at the age of 13. His love for the subject inspired him to travel the world to teach coding at various schools during his winter breaks from MIT, where he was pursuing a degree in Computer Science.
Those teaching gigs made Anshul realise that K12 education was broken and “outdated” in nearly every country in the world. This realisation formed the hypothesis of his entrepreneurial venture:
[Product Roadmap] How edtech startup WizKlub developed tech to enhance cognitive skills in children
A product roadmap clarifies the why, what, and how behind what a tech startup is building. This week we feature edtech startup WizKlub.
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After co-founding two edtech startups,
Amit Bansal, Manohar Kashyap, Swarup Vijh, and Pramod N started WizKlub in 2018. The idea was to create maximum impact on students by skilling them on specific tools. The second-time entrepreneurs realised the core aptitude of a person is defined in the first 13-14 years, and they felt the current school system was not helping children develop these necessary skills.
This K-12 coding startup enrolled 2.5 lakh students in less than 10 months with affordable courses
Noida-based startup Tinker Coders, which offers affordable programming courses to K-12 students, is riding India’s coding boom and also going global.
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Tinker Coders’ website opens with an Elon Musk quote on how he learnt to code young and went on to sell his “first commercial programme” at 12.
While the use of celebrity techies like Musk and others for marketing
‘coding for kids’ platforms has been widely criticised of late, the Tesla founder now the world’s richest person is an easy bait for parents rushing to make their kids “future-ready” with new-age skills like coding.